Display device for neckties.



'Patante d June .5, I900.

No. 650,9l2.

H. num z. DISPLAY DEVICE FOR NEQKTIES.

A lication filed r31). 26, mod)" (No Model.)

IF/er img W 46.6 @MaU 0., WASHINGTON o c NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY RUNTZ, OF cHIcAeo, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY DEVICE FOR NECKTIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,912, dated June 5, 1900. Application filed February 26, 1900. Serial No. 6,548. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY RUNTZ, of Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices for Neckties, of which the followingisa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a necktie display device embodying the features of my invention, themain portion of the card or board upon which said support is mounted being broken away. Fig. 2 is a similar view in plan. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken upon the line 3 3, Fig. 2, as viewed in the direction of the arrow there shown; and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a portion of said device, in which the supporting-card is shown in section.

Similar letters of reference in the difierent figures indicate like parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient adjustable device for supporting and maintaining neckties in position where they may be properly displayed for. sale and inserted within and removed from said device without injury to said ties. I accomplish said result by removably attaching to a display-card or to the bottom of a box a single piece of spring-Wire, so bent as to form a series of vertical tie -supporting loops in alinement with each other, said loops being sustained by means of laterally-bent portions forming a base upon the card to sustain the loops in a vertical position and means for adj ustably securing said device upon the card, so that the relative distance between the loops may be varied for the reception of ties of varying size, substantially in themanner hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, a represents a cardboard or box-bottom, as may be preferred, at or near opposite sides of which are rigidly attached, by means of rivets or in any wellknown Way, sheet-metal or other strips I), having a series of loops 0 formed therein, adapted to receive the ends 01 d of a single integral wire structure, consisting of a series of vertical loops 6 and intervening lateral extensionsf, alternately bent in opposite directions,

as shown, to serve as a basic support for the 4 vertical loops, said laterally-bent portions f being flattened or made thinner in whole or in part to permit the same to bend without distorting the loops, the entire structure being preferably made from spring-steel or tempered brass or other suitable material, so that when stretched longitudinally and released it will assume its normal position.

The neckties, one of which is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, are intended to be placed between the several loops, and as the space at the bottom is wider than that at the top it is obvious that by slightly compressing the tie it may easily be placed in position, where it will be retained by the adjacent loops. In order to adjust the distance between the loops to ties of varying size, the parts d may be removed from the loops 0, when the wire may be stretched orpermitted to retract to the desired extent to conform to the desired adjustment, whereupon the parts d may be inserted in such loops as may be found necessary to maintain that adjustment.

The advantages of my improved device are that it is simple and cheap and thatit enables the ties to be secured and displayed independently of each other, while they may be inserted in position and removed therefrom without injury.

Having thus described myinventiou, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-- out, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a necktie-display device consisting of a single metal strip or wire in which is formed a series of vertical loops in alinement with each other, intervening lateral extensions arranged at right angles to the plane of the loops, in combination withadisplay box or card and means for detachably and adj ustably securing said wire thereto at or near the respective ends substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a device of the class described, consisting of a wire or strip of metal having the vertical loops 6 and lateral extensions f the latter being thinner or less rigid than the loops, a supporting dis I00 play box or mount, and means for detachably and ad justably securing the ends of said wire thereto, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, the

combinationavith a suitable mount, of a Wire or strip of metal having alined vertical loops, intervening lateral basic extensions integral therewith and means for detachably securing the ends of said Wire to the mount at varying distances from each other whereby the device may be adjusted to receive ties of varying size, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence of two subscrib- IO ing witnesses, this 24th day of February, 1900.

HENRY RUNTZ.

Vitnesses:

D. H. FLETCHER, D. B. CHEEVER. 

